An American Family History

The McClellan Family
of Sullivan County, Tennessee

John McClellan, Sr.

John's children probably included:

Abraham McClellan,
John McClellan,
William McClellan (1766 married Barbara Walker), and
Mary McClellan

In 1774, Abraham McClellan was in Looney's Company and he signed the 1777 Petition.

William McClellan was born about 1738 in Virginia. His parents were John and Martha McClellan.

He married Barbara Walker.

William and Barbara's children included:

John McClellan (1768, married Mary Wallace),
Abraham McClellan (1770),
Samuel McClellan (1773, married Rachel McCampbell and Ann Twitty),
Elizabeth McClellan (1776, married James Looney)
Anna McClellan (1779, married Samuel Carrick),
William McClellan (1779, married Elizabeth Sevier),
James McClellan (1781, married Jane Patterson Taylor),
David McClellan (1783, married Ruth Hawkins).

In 1793 John McClellan was an ensign in the Sullivan County Militia.